Worried about inflation? Here are signs

4:19 PM,
Jan. 11, 2013

Written by

John Waggoner
USA TODAY

If you want to be briefly popular, all you have to do is predict the end of the world. Nothing grabs the public's fancy like a shower of toads.

If you want to be popular for a long time, all you have to do is predict a resurgence of runaway inflation. It's a prediction that resonates with people old enough to remember the inflation of the 1970s, and with people who distrust large numbers and the Federal Reserve. What's more remarkable is that you can be wrong for a long, long time and people will still believe you.

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